Here’s the second 30 seconds of Duo, played by Peter Erkine and Bob Mintzer, on Mintzer’s record Hymn. This track comes in a tight little package, every 30 seconds exactly = two times through the […]
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Bishopdiddles – 02: double paradiddles to swing 8ths
Listen: do not show these to somebody and call them “BISHOPDIDDLES.” You’re going to get both of us beaten up. One thing I like about this double paradiddle inversion is that it’s possible to accent the […]
Transcription: Peter Erskine – Duo
I don’t know what younger drummers’ current perception of Peter Erskine is, but when I was a student he was one of the top guys, always thought of as being exceedingly musical, with a great […]
Bishopdiddles
Minor item, corralling some similar sticking ideas that have been floating around the site. I noticed that with paradiddle-like stickings, I like inverting them so the double is up front, right after the first accent. […]
P. 38 canon
This is purely a writing experiment, pay no attention. Like, run away to some other web site right now. Actually this is a pretty good exercise for working up an Ed Blackwell kind of solo […]
Solo transcription: Ben Riley – Bemsha Swing
More Ben Riley! From the same record as yesterday— Thelonious Monk Live At The It Club— and in fact this is the very next tune they played at the gig, Bemsha Swing. So, two drum […]
Solo transcription: Ben Riley – Blues Five Spot
Solo by Ben Riley on Blues Five Spot, from the Thelonious Monk record Live At The It Club. Great record, and core literature. I think of Ben Riley’s playing as maybe the cleanest shot we […]
Basic 8th note rhythms with variations – two bar phrases
Item for one of my students. I generally have people learn their rock beats through Syncopation— once they can do a few basic beats reading them in the conventional way, we go over to my […]
Solo transcription: Joey Baron – Goldfish
Joey Baron’s solo over a 7/4 vamp on Goldfish, from Dave Douglas’s 1997 album Stargazer, to which I’m listening a lot this week. There’s not a ton of drumistic content to it, it’s more of […]
Groove o’ the day: Greg Errico – If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up
By request here’s a groove by played by Greg Errico on If I’m In Luck I Might Get Picked Up by Betty Davis (née Mabry) on her self-titled album. Which was also produced by Greg […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – Bad News Blues – 03
Part 3 of Roy Haynes playing Bad News Blues on his record Cracklin’. Booker Ervin’s tenor solo includes a chorus of stop time, two choruses of blowing, then he trades choruses with Roy. This is […]